PIECE OF STEAK (Daniela Grijalva)

1. What is the purpose of this book?
   The story of Tom King made me realize the importance of being prepared for worse. In this story the boxer can bearly feed his familiy which made me grateful of everything I own and every new day of life i have. This story made me realize that not one thing that we own is forever so I must enjoy everything day by day and get prepared for the difficult times.
2. What is the author trying to accomplish?
   I believe the author is trying to make the readers conscious of how vulnerable life is and how i can change in the blink of an eye. As  I mentioned before hes trying o make us realize how lucky we are to have the life we have and to be prepared in case this changes. 
3. What issues or problems are raised?
   One of the problems that all athletes face is that when they grow old theirs bodies stop working as good as they did in their youth and their performance is affected. This should be something that every athlete must be aware of at the time they decide to dedicate their lives to sports because they need to be prepared for the time this happens to be able to gain money from another source or at least save during their best time so they can maintain themselves and their families during the hard times. What happened to Tom is that he grew old and stopped being requested for fights to the point where he went broke and wasn´t able to feed his family.
4. What data, what experiences, what evidence is given in the story?
   The author copares the best days of the boxers life with his current life telling us about every feeling he is experimenting so that we can se howhappy he was and how much he struggles now.
5. How is this data or experiences organized?
   Its organized in a way that you compare both lives and to be able to make your expectations or his future life.First they show us the family struggling a little bit but with time it gets worse and during that they tell you about his past life so that you can understand his frustration.
6. How is the author thinking about the world?
   The author thinks about he world as a place where everyone sooner or later struggles in life specially those who weren´t aware of how lucky they were.
7. Is his thinking justified as far as we can see from our perspective?
   Yes
8. How can we enter his perspective to appreciate what he has to say?
   Maybe by reading his biography we can understand his real intention about this story and where he got the inspiration to write it from.